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Walk In Footsteps Going Forward – The Healing Power of Poetry

Muscogee Nation poet, Joy Harjo, talks in the introduction to her new and selected poems 1975 - 2001, How We Became Human, of how poetry "showed up" and helped her turn away from self-destruction and despair.

"Poetry approached me in that chaos of raw inverted power and leaned over and tapped me on the shoulder, and said, "You need to learn how to listen, you need grace, you need to learn how to speak. You're coming with me." I did not walk off into the sunset with poetry, or hit the town with a blaze of gunfire with poetry guarding my back. Rather, the journey toward poetry worked exactly the same as the process of writing a poem. It started from the inside out, then turned back in to complete a movement."Adrienne Rich has written about the frightening 'tunnel of silence' women poets find themselves in when there have been no women writing before them. In Canada, Cree poet, …

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Magi’s recent poetry collection Washing Hugh MacDiarmid’s Socks was described in The National as “a joy to read”. Collections include Graffiti in Red Lipstick, Wild Women of a Certain Age, Kicking Back. Poems appear in Modern Scottish Women Poets (Canongate), Scottish Love Poems (Canongate), The Edinburgh Book of 20th Century Scottish Poetry, (EUP), 100 Favourite Scottish Love Poems, New Writing Scotland, Original Prints, (Polygon), Meantime, Prize Winning Writing (Polygon). The Senile Dimension, won the Scotland on Sunday/Women 2000 Writing Prize. Short stories published in Damage Land, New Scottish Gothic Fiction (Polygon), and Harlot Red, (Serpents’ Tail), Northwords Now, etc. The play, Our Boys won a Tom MacGrath Award. Her filmscripts were finalists for Tartan Shorts and NewFoundLand Film Awards. Drama on BBC R4. 3 children’s novels with Puffin. She’s held 3 Scottish Arts Council Writing Fellowships, a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship, received a major Scottish Arts Council bursary, has been Writer in Residence at GoMA in Glasgow, has mentored SBT New Writers Awards, was Reader in Residence with Glasgow Women’s Library. Created Wild Women Writing.